 6g GT Four, Why wasn't it imported in US? |
 Sep 19, 2004 - 9:04 PM
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Why wasn't the 6th gen GT-Four ever imported into the United States?
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Nov 25, 2004 - 6:33 AM
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Hmmm. The turbo restriction was a constructive interpretation of the rules. They broke the spirit, not the letter of the legistlation. F1 cars get away with lots more. It was worth another 50-100bhp. And WRC cars really aren't about power.
The reason they dropped the 205 in favour of the corolla was two fold. The kit car rules meant they didn't have to produce a 4wd turbo nutter corolla available for the public, and the corolla was shorter and taller, enabling better vision and yes, it's more useful on the modern tight technical stages. Subary used to race the Legacy very sucessfully, and that's a biiiig car. The rallys changed. The corolla, by the way, was pretty much the ST205 chassis, engine and drivetrain but in a different bodyshell. Oh, and the engine wasn't a 3S-GTE. It was a 3S-GE BEAMs block with a custom turbocharger and head. And pistons. And pretty much everything else.....  It was a damn fine rally car. It's a shame we never saw it fully developed and racing for several seasons. -------------------- JDM ST205
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Yota 6g GT Four Sep 19, 2004 - 9:04 PM
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